Ashley B. Woods, our current Miss Black and Gold of Xi Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated; would like to extend her help towards our national program: “A Voteless People is a Hopeless People”. During the 1930s prominent Alpha men created the national program, “A Voteless People is a Hopeless People” to register voters and raise awareness within the Black community about the importance of voting. Moreover, "A Voteless People is a Hopeless People" served as a catalyst for peaceful resistance against discriminatory policies concerning voting. The fifteenth amendment (1870) of the U.S. Constitution states in section 1: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.
Meghan Sias English10 Loguen SOAPSS Subject: Jermain Loguen, in his speech “I am a Fugitive Slave”; he publically explains how wrong the recent Fugitive slave act is. And asks the city in which he lives in, Syracuse, to become a refugee for fugitive slaves. Loguen insinuates that it would be foolish to allow this act to be passed without opposition. This speech is a cry for help in which his faith in the people of Syracuse is shown. Occasion: This speech was delivered on October 4, 1850, shortly after the Fugitive slave act was passed, which Loguen is responding to.
He was able to pass as a white man because of his light skin complexion. Rebecca Latimer the wife who had darker skin acted as if she was George’s slave. They pass through towns and cities to get to freedom land in Boston. A very famous black man called Fredrick Douglass who was a former slave spoke up against George Latimer’s arrest in Boston. In addition to Mr. Douglass’ request for Latimar’s freedom a trial ruled that he was still a slave.
Gautreaux Vs Cha was a lawsuit that was made for public housing segregation. It was filed by Dorothy Gautreaux in 1969 through federal court and the case went on although she was dead. “The Chicago Housing Authority and HUD had violated the US constitution which states that everyone is equal.” The purpose was to develop a law that would help all race, the riches and the poor to integrate. HUD and CHA created a plan that specifically had African- Americans to mobilize in to the white areas surrounding the city. In order to relocate 7100 families, it took well over 20 years.
He was committed to the antislavery cause and worked unceasingly for improvement of black civil rights. In 1837 Reason, Henry Highland Garnet, and George Downing launched a petition drive in support of full black suffrage. He was also secretary of the 1840 New York State Convention for Negro Suffrage. Reason founded and was executive secretary of the New York Political Improvement Association, which won for fugitive slaves the right to a jury trial in the state. In 1841 he lobbied successfully for the abolition of the sojourner law, which permitted slave owners to visit the state briefly with their slaves.
Though Kennedy was a young president he was one of very few presidents to show concern towards racial inequality. As he led the nation with hopes of equality, freedom, morals, and principles the hopes of Americans died with Mr. Kennedy. Americans during the 1960 election saw Kennedy as a young influential president, especially towards the subject of racial inequality. President Kennedy publicly committed his administration to the cause of racial equality in the summer of 1963 when he proposed the Civil Rights bill to Congress and offered his endorsement to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The assassination shocked America and soon after led to counterculture and rebellious teenagers during the late sixties early seventies.
Washington and learn more about the situation of African Americans. By the time Garvey arrived in America in 1916, Washington had died, but Garvey decided to travel around the country and observe African Americans and their struggle for equal rights. In his findings, Garvey recognized there were no programs and leaders were only in it for themselves as the poor black man was “groping in the dark”. He immediately started a New York division of UNIA. It grew quickly due to his ability to travel at his own expense and write and deliver speeches all over the country.
Eva Colon Lisa Gallegos Eng 090 March 19, 2012 Women deserve rights Elizabeth Stanton wrote about her experiences with discrimination against women in 1848. She feels that when the government becomes destructive in these ends it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance. (379) Even though discrimination is not put up with in these days, in the 1800s women were considered nothing slaves, supporter of the home and baring kids. Elizabeth Stanton wrote to not only express her feelings it was to stand up for her and for other women and to make a differences. First of all, Stanton writes “He never permitted her to
In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil.” (Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave) After settling in, Douglass sent for Anna Murray to follow him to New York and she arrived with the essentials for getting them fully settle. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister
These were just some of the many reasons for this march. The March on Washington was first thought of by a man by the name of A. Philip Randolph. Randolph was the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the AFL-CIO. He was a man of not only vision but also of action. The idea of a march was first conceived in 1941, when Randolph threatened President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assemble 100,000 African Americans in the capital, if he refused to sign an executive order banning discrimination in the defense industries and creating the Fair Employment Committee.